Why neuer penalty

Every fit player is vital for us. For me Thiago is one of the fairest players we have. He was looking at the ball and then this unfortunate situation happened. Neuer: It felt right. There is always a slight tension when you wear it and you need to do anything possible to be as comfortable as possible when you have a shootout.

Neuer: Obviously we prepare for these situations, but as you saw, a lot of the penalty takers went in the opposite direction.

I think Bernd Leno chose the wrong way a few times, but he will definitely have prepared. Neuer: The most important thing for us now is to recover as quickly as possible, stay fit and go into the next game.

That figure does not include penalty shoot-outs, but noticeable in crunch shoot-outs has been the typically Teutonic confidence with which Neuer has stepped up to take a penalty, as well as saving from the opposition, his mere presence alone often enough to put the taker off. The year-old slotted his spot-kick in the Champions League final against Chelsea and said during EURO that "my job is primarily to stop the opposition scoring from the spot, but if others are nervous then I'd definitely take one.

Such qualities command respect, from team-mates and opposition alike, and it was little surprise that when Bastian Schweinsteiger relinquished his role as captain of Germany following EURO , Neuer was swiftly installed as his replacement. When Philipp Lahm retired in the summer of , there was little doubt at Bayern about who would inherit the armband, despite the Bavarians boasting a squad replete with international stars.

Tactically, Neuer's intelligence allows Bayern and Germany to play a high line and press high to win the ball back in the opposition half. The security of Neuer controlling the space behind the centre-backs — and the confidence with which he does so — has completely changed the options available to his team, and effectively means they can reduce the opposition to feeling like they are a man down without anyone having been sent off.

Such intelligence also explains that while plenty try to imitate Neuer, and the German is almost always held to be the paradigm of the modern goalkeeper, few are able to succeed in emulating him. It is, in fact, quite different: in the same way Lahm thrived instantly when moved into midfield because of his intelligence and awareness, so would Neuer.

There is always the matter of what happens if opponents do take advantage of the high line. This is where Neuer's famed passing game does come into its own; with his high position the goalkeeper can sweep up any long balls aimed at opposition strikers, preventing any counters before they become dangerous, and then with his accurate distribution - honed by an upbringing in Schalke's famed Knappenschmiede academy — turn defence into attack in the blink of an eye.

Converting a goalkeeper into an outfield player in this fashion, then, is not a defensive move. After deliberation, Manuel Neuer was included on the Bayern list to take one of the first five penalties. The year-old stepped up to take his penalty, and cooly slotted underneath Petr Cech to make it to Bayern in the penalty shootout, but a stunning turnaround secured Chelsea their first ever Champions League triumph.

Speaking to BT Sport , the German shot-stopper revealed the reason to why he had to step up to take a penalty. Luck was against us, not many players wanted to take a penalty which I understand because the pressure was immense so I volunteered to take one," Neuer said.

Petr Cech was on the other team and he performed very well so we had to congratulate them.